Nicolas Malebranche
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One of the more persistent interpretations of Leibniz's system of pre-established harmony is as a temporal dislocation of occasionalism: whatever God is always doing on the occasionalist account he need only have done once – at creation –... more
This book is a retrospective view of modern philosophical anthropology through the works of two of its greatest exponents. the author demonstrates how mythology, the philosophy of history and language and Vico's concept of man had as a... more
TO READ THE PREVIEW SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE PREVIEW SCROLL DOWN The living symphony of life sounds from deep within the microphysical, representing the veritable completion of the fabled Great Chain of Being. This sketch from 2015 can... more
Description courte (Électre, 2019) : Une étude d'un des principaux axes de réflexion du philosophe des sciences et de la nature Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987). À la lumière des découvertes de l'embryogenèse et en s'appuyant par ailleurs sur la... more
First of all, this article examines the conception of Malebranche according to which man is the “animal Rationis particeps” and his arguments to demonstrate the necessity of a universal Reason: it looks at the objectivity of mathematical... more
Although many commentators on Rousseau’s philosophy have noted its affinities with Platonism and acknowledged the debt that Rousseau himself expressed to Plato on numerous occasions, David Williams is the first to offer a thoroughgoing,... more
Malebranche a été exclu d’une histoire de la radicalité présentée comme caractéristique des Lumières. Or ce faisant, on a oublié que le malebranchisme était déjà une réception particulière : celle de la physiologie cartésienne qui,... more
Cet article s’efforce de prendre la mesure de l’impact du cartésianisme dans les transformations du concept d’imagination à la fin du XVIIe siècle en prenant pour points d’ancrage les développements consacrés à cette notion chez... more
Les Méditations chrétiennes et métaphysiques, publiées pour la première fois en 1683, se proposent d’approfondir à nouveaux frais les enjeux théoriques de la Recherche de la vérité et des Conversations chrétiennes. Leur stratégie consiste... more
The “Discourse on Metaphysics” is widely considered to be Leibniz’s most important philosophical work from his so-called “middle period”. Written early in 1686, when Leibniz was 39 years old, it consolidates a number of philosophical... more
Three points of view on the problem of the answerability of philosophical questions are developed: a) the traditional view that the questions are perfectly genuine but just very difficult; b) what I call the 'nonsensicalist' view,... more
Traduzione francese di "Angeli e beati. Modelli di conoscenza da Tommaso a Spinoza", Laterza 2006
The article deals with the critical reception of the Cartesian theory of the eternal truths. It aims to analyze the central role played by Descartes’ doctrine in Early Modern Philosophy, with particular regard to the reflections of... more
Où commence la gloire du ciron ? Où finit-elle ? Pourquoi choisir ce « petit » animal pour réfléchir au privilège accordé au sens de la vue ? Ce n'est pas toute l'histoire du ciron – si l'on entend par là l'histoire naturelle de son... more
A discussion of J.B. Shank's 'Before Voltaire: The French Origins of "Newtonian" Mechanics' (Univ of Chicago Press, 2018).
Cet ouvrage reconstruit la conception politique de Malebranche en dégageant de ses textes une autre déclinaison possible de la théorie politique à l’époque moderne, qui vient s’intégrer dans une anthropologie se caractérisant par un... more
The paper examines the seeds of ethnology and of the philosophy of culture in a late Malebranche text, Dialogue between a Christian Philosopher and a Chinese Philosopher, and the Jesuit responses published by the Journal de Trévoux, an... more
Francis Bacon, Descartes and Malebranche are the sources of Conti’s interest in imagination, fantasy and their aberrations. This kind of interest grows stronger and stronger gets the antirationalistic trend during the 1740s. Through his... more
Ha sido un lugar común en la crítica filosófica ridiculizar a Berkeley o reducirlo a un extraño episodio de la historia de la filosofía, de poca consistencia teórica, mero eslabón intermedio entre Locke y Hume –en una consideración tal... more
In his De la recherche de la vérité (The Search after Truth) of 1674-75, Nicolas Malebranche makes a number of apparently contradictory remarks about women and their capacity for pure intellectual thought. On the one hand, he seems to... more
Tekst składa się z dwóch części: pierwszej omawiającej transcendentalizm na tle historycznego kontekstu jego powstania, drugi omawiający wykładnię transcendentalizmu wg. Marka Siemka.
In this paper, I argue that a strong interpretation of efficacious ideas, whereby they appear to become true causal agents, must be rejected precisely because it pushes us into an incorrect reading of Malebranche's theory of the divine... more
The paper discusses the theological implications and presuppositions of Leibniz's criticism toward Malebranche's Occasionalism. The basic view held by Leibniz is that miracle is not a sign of God's Absolute Power, but a part of God's... more
Berkeley argues that our ideas cannot represent external objects, because only an idea can resemble an idea. But he does not offer any argument for the claim that an idea can represent only what it resembles - a premise essential to his... more
There is a tension at the heart of Francis Hutcheson's moral theory. It can be seen most clearly in the contrast between the judgments he makes throughout his corpus about particular cases-of kindness, generosity, friendliness, and... more
Soit qu’elle rejette l’humanisme, soit qu’elle se l’approprie, la si fameuse Lettre sur l’humanisme que Heidegger rédigea en 1946 parle d’un humanisme difficile à cerner, tant pour le philosophe que pour l’historien des idées. Ce constat,... more
À l’instar du « dualisme », de l’« harmonie préétablie » et du « parallélisme », l’« occasionnalisme » est souvent présenté comme une doctrine unifiée reportant toute puissance ou toute causalité en Dieu en en destituant du même coup les... more
El artículo realiza un acercamiento a las teodiceas de Leibniz y de Malebranche centrándose en los conceptos de “deber moral” y “economía”. A partir de aquí se calibran los términos bajo los cuales ambos filósofos entienden la libertad... more
The Argument of the "Perpetual Miracle" and its Theological Implications: on Leibniz-Malebranche Relationships. One of Leibniz's strongest arguments against the Occasionalists (including Malebranche) is that, since they see... more
Neste texto investigo a ideia de extensão imaterial e a impossibilidade de demostrar a existência dos corpos materiais na filosofia de Malebranche.
In the early modern period, contempt emerged as a persistent theme in moral philosophy. Most of the moral philosophers of the period shared two basic commitments in their thinking about contempt. First, they argued that we understand the... more
From the Art of the Imagination to the Science of the Mind. Some Considerations on the Concept of Memory in Malebranche and Vico. The topic of the psychology of memory is rather marginal in the contemporary debate about the imagination in... more